Nico Stehr

Who is Nico Stehr?

Nico Stehr is "Karl Mannheim Professor for Cultural Studies" at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen / Germany and Founding Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research.

He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1970. Between 1967 and 2000, he taught at American and Canadian universities. His last appointment in Canada was that of fellow in Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study der University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professor at the University of Vienna. He is Senior Research Fellow of the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, a fellow of the Fellow the Center for Advanved Study of the Humanities, Essen, Germany, editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the European Academy of the Sciences and the Arts.

In 2011, Stehr created the European Center for Sustainability Research at Zeppelin University.

His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies and associated developments in different social institutions of modern society and is focused on these field of attention: